The Importance Of Cochlear Implants

     A cochlear implant is an electronic device that restores hearing for people anywhere from hard of hearing to the profoundly deaf. The cochlear implant is surgically implanted under the skin behind the ear. The surgeon puts the electrode array inside the inner ear and than inside the cochlea. The implant works by a device outside the ear, which rests on the skin behind the ear. It is held upright by a magnet and is also connected by a lead to a sound professor.

Cochlear Implants are an object that is very controversial in the deaf community. “A Cochlear Implants is a device that provdes direct electrical stimulation to the auditory (hearing) nerve in the inner ear.” (“Cochlear Implants”) Cochlear Implants bypass the damaged hair cells, and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Depending on when the Cochlear Implant is implanted it allows people to hear sounds, and sometimes even their own voice. While it does not cure hearing loss or deafness, it does allow people to hear. On more technical terms a Cochlear Implant includes parts like a microphone, speech processor, and a transmitter which each play a different part in the Cochlear Implant. The microphone picks up sounds, sends them to the speech processer, and then the speech processor analyzes and digitized the sound signal, thus sending them to a transmitter worn on the head. The debate of whether or not Cochlear Implants are right in the deaf community is one that has been going on for years. People believe having Cochlear Implants are a good thing, because they allow deaf people to communicate with hearing people, it allows people who are not helped by conventional hearing aids to be helped, and it creates new possibilities for deaf people. However there are also people that argue that having a Cochlear Implant is a bad thing, because it proposes the idea that deaf people need to be fixed, it can give deaf people false hope, and it proposes the idea that deaf people have a

To start with, cochlear implants won’t change the person’s identity because it’s a helpful device in which won’t change the individual’s physical aspects. According to the movie Sound and Fury documentary, the child Peter was given a cochlear implant after a few months of birth. Peter’s surgery was a success in which he continued being who he is even after given an implant. The implant can be easily put back on the child and even removed in which he would be back to normal. Another reason why the cochlear implant won’t change the person’s identity because it is meant for someone deaf to actually hear. According to Source A, its states that “ Some commentators attacked the medical profession's role in the creation of such negative images of

A Cochlear Implant is an electronic device that partially restores hearing in people who have severe hearing loss due to damage of the inner ear and who receive limited benefit from hearing aids (http://www.cochlear.com/wps/wcm/connect/au/home/understand/hearing-and-hl/hl-treatments/cochlear-implant). In some cases there are patients whose hearing did not adjust correctly, having a risk of developing a virus, complications after the surgery, the benefits of sign language without a cochlear implant and lastly children or adults with cochlear implants may not even develop a good speech. There are many positive and negative articles I have read on cochlear implants. As a parent you are not only putting your child at risk, you are also withdrawing them from the deaf community, the one they were naturally born into. I do not support cochlear implants, children should not be implanted until they are grown to the point where they can make their own choice

Most doctors recommend that children with cochlear implant only use spoken language as a method of communication so they can maximize the benefits from the cochlear implant. However, the popular method of communication for children with cochlear implants is total communication which is the integration of oral communication and ASL. Although Heather Artinian was fluent in ASL before she received her cochlear implant, she was able to communicate with hearing and deaf people through both ASL and spoken language after years of intensive speech therapy (Aronson, Sound and Fury: Six Years Later). When cochlear implant users take it off, they cannot hear any sounds so they are technically still deaf. Even though they are able to hear sounds, cochlear implant recipients will not be able to identify themselves as hearing individuals. When they bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing world, they can still be a part of both cultures without defining themselves as a part of only one culture (TedX: The Heather World). Therefore, the cochlear implant can be a great device for deaf people who want to stay in the Deaf community but still be able to take advantage of additional opportunities in the hearing

A cochlear implant is an implanted medical device for the deaf or hard of hearing that do not benefit from the traditional hearing aid. It is composed of an internal device that is implanted in the recipient’s head and an external device that is the sound processor. The sound processor collects sound and then transmits it to the implanted device, which then sends it directly to the brain to be interpreted as language. During the time that I was choosing a hearing solution for my daughter I experienced a lot of negative opinions from the deaf culture (community of deaf people who share sign language among other things). They seem to be against parents choosing to have their small children implanted. The deaf culture presumes

Those that oppose cochlear implants argue mostly from a minority standpoint. The deaf community feels that as the minority, the hearing majority is threatening their way of life. “The deaf community is a culture. They’re much like the culture of the Hispanic community, for example, where parents who are Hispanics, or shall we say deaf, would naturally want to retain their family ties by their common language, their primary language, which is

A decade ago there were no technological solutions available to assist a cochlear implant candidate/recipient, who presented with severe to profound hearing loss. A cochlear implant can improve your hearing, but it can never be certain how much. People who have received the surgery often report an improvement in hearing. The ability to hear things is essential to living in any society, even a slight improvement can increase a person’s quality of life.

Cochlear implants are good and bad. The good can provide sound to those who are severely deaf. The earlier the implant the better chance of the person being able to hear. It takes time for a person with cochlear implants for their brain to learn and develop. Cochlear implants can give others a whole new meaning of life based off of the sounds they may be hearing around them. Cochlear implants can also be bad if the tests are done and the tests don’t show if the implants are going to have a positive effect on the patient. The surgery can have complications that could cause an infection. The procedure could also potentially permanently destroy whatever hearing was left before the procedure. Cochlear implants are also very expensive and not everyone

When most people hear the term cochlear implant they tend to think about hard of hearing people but they also tend to get cochlear implant and hearing aid mixed up. A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in both ears. The cochlear implant has been available to people for over 30 years. The man that came of with the idea to make this invention goes by the name of William. F House. William he was a medical researcher and was born in Kansas City,MO december 1 1923 and died december 7 Aurora,OR he lived for 89 years. The first implant was made in 1978 it was referred to as the bionic ear. Since that time a variety of cochlear implants have

Imagine being profoundly deaf and being told by your doctor that you won't be able to hear certain voices or sounds in your life. Imagine living with that statement every day, and knowing that you won’t be able to hear the whispers in the background or birds chirping when taking a nice walk. Until one day, everything has changed. All because of one technology, you are able to hear much more than you were expecting to hear. This whole situation is based on my life, and you are going to learn how much a CI have impacted me. A CI is a cochlear implant, and it is a device that is worn by a deaf person, and it sends neural transmitters to the cochlea, and it helps them hear greatly. There are some factors that have greatly developed me using my

The purpose of the cochlear implant is to help replaces the damaged function of the inner ear, the cochlear work in any damaged parts and will provide sound signal to the brain (Cochlear Ltd, 2017).

“In spite of the problems and criticisms, I just had to go on. A cochlear implant is their hope of ever hearing.” ~ Graeme Clark.

Advancements in Information Technology have now made it possible to restore hearing to the profoundly deaf by inserting a prosthetic device called the Bionic Ear (also known as the Cochlear Implant) in an individual’s inner ear. The Bionic Ear technology is an example of design and innovation combined with information processing, software design and development. Since it was first invented, technology advancements proceeded on a parallel track in terms of miniaturisation and increasing sophistication of this Bionic Ear technology. This particular technology operates by delivering electrical stimuli to the auditory nerve which then triggers auditory

This procedure is called the Cochlear implant. The Cochlear Implant is a medical device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear. According to ( "Cochlear Implants & Cochlear Implant Technology." Cochlear Implants | Hearing Loss Treatments | Cochlear™ Aust/NZ. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2017) it is said that Cochlear implants also work on the damaged parts of the inner ear to provide sound signals to the brain. If you are deaf or hard of hearing , A cochlear implant could make things better for you , it can help you get your sound back that you miss with this hooked onto you. This is another way how deaf people